Texte notion 3 bac anglais

        So I’m going to talk about the concept of Places and Forms of Power in South Africa. First, I want to give a definition, Power is the ability to control and influence other elements or other people. To have power is to have influence on people or on the world. The notion places and forms of power invites us to question what kinds of power are clashing against each other, what are the main sources of influence in our societies, and where these forms of power are being used. Our society functions with rules and regulations, implemented by people in power. If these rules and regulations guarantee that society is working, they also trigger crispation and frustration. The link between South Africa and our notion of Places and Forms of Power is marked by racism and the forms of power over black people in this country. So we come to wonder how can people from different cultures live together in harmony? To answer this question, we will first see what the consequences of apartheid are for the population, then we will show how South Africa is the rainbow nation, finally, we will focus on the passage from the past to the present and the events it accompanies.

        Apartheid is the name given to the policy of racial segregation carried out in South Africa by the white minority against the black majority. Established in 1948 by the National Party, apartheid is based on the separate development of populations and was practiced until 1991. It is the translation into institutions of an empirical policy of racial segregation existing in South Africa since the creation of the colony of Cape Town in 1652. This policy is the consequence of the historic anguish of the Afrikaners, whites of non-English speaking origin, mainly Dutch, to be overwhelmed by the multitude of the surrounding black population. The segregation focused on economic, geographic and social status according to ethnic and racial origins. First of all, we know through a text by Leonard Thompson that during apartheid people with the color of white skin had more rights and power than people with the color of black skin, they could vote, the high-level jobs were reserved for white people ... Indeed, the state exercised a form of power over the black people by devaluing it. During this period many injustices were done, in fact the leaders of the black people were forced into exile and imprisonment. In 1978, in an anti-apartheid article, there were more than 11 million black people arrested in 25 years. However, we recognize a hero in this story, Nelson Mandela. He was born on July 18, 1918 in the Union of South Africa. He is known for being a politician in charge of the struggle against apartheid, which leads him first to the peaceful struggle against oppression. Then following the massacre of demonstrators for the rights of the Blacks in Sharpeville in 1960, when the ANC or African National Congress to which Nelson Mandela belongs is prohibited, the clandestine struggle and the taking up of arms. Convicted in 1964 to life imprisonment, he will remain incarcerated for 27 years ... but still as popular, will be elected on April 27, 1994 to the presidency of his country only a few years after his release from prison. He then became the first black president of South Africa, for a single presidential term, until 1999. His whole existence revolved around the fight against racial segregation. For this, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Barack Obama wrote the foreword of a well-document book, Conversations with my self, about Nelson Mandela, in which he explains the hero and the prowess performed by Nelson Mandela for the freedom of his people.

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